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| 142466a | They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love. | gestures love lovers lust | Gregory Maguire | |
| f619430 | When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 15825c9 | They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces. | weakness | Kate Atkinson | |
| 4a04c47 | Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| f564e48 | She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 3df896a | How strange, Royce thought, that, after emerging victorious from more than a hundred real battles, the greatest moment of triumph he had ever known had come to him on a mock battlefield where he'd stood alone, unhorsed, and defeated. This morning, his life had seemed as bleak as death. Tonight, he held joy in his arms. Someone or something--fate or fortune or Jenny's God--had looked down upon him this morning and seen his anguish. And, for .. | god jenny judith-mcnaught roycesweetiepie | Judith McNaught | |
| 9f91a05 | A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 7527e0f | I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day." | tock wisdom words | Norton Juster | |
| 17993bd | Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| ef063f8 | Do you ever sing in the car?" "Generally not. But I am driving a police car." "I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic." "You can talk for a long time about nothing." "I certainly can, you charming man!" | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 3e106f4 | It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness. | James Gleick | ||
| 889db0c | It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| f32d893 | Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set .. | privilege | James Baldwin | |
| bc2b27e | The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 219f9ee | Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of ma.. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 02fdb1a | We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| f29b150 | I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c887c01 | When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud. | reality | L.M. Montgomery | |
| f818fde | I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire. | Cornel West | ||
| 84c3027 | Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy! | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ab50ed5 | It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted. | life persecution | E.M. Forster | |
| d66dabe | There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 9a0b72a | Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 6ac7030 | High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. | Yann Martel | ||
| 5ad9f7c | How come the Muggles don't hear the bus?" said Harry. "Them!" said Stan contemptuously. "Don' listen properly, do they? Don' look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don'." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2a06889 | Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking! 'It's all right for him, he's an internationally famous wizard already!' But when I was twelve, I was just as much of a nobody as you are now. In fact, I'd say I was even more of a nobody! I mean, a few people have heard of you, haven't they? All that business with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!" He glanced at the lightning scar on Harry's forehead. "I know, I know -- it's not quite as good as winning Mos.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| be89abc | And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!" -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8d42407 | Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. Only one out of three, I'm afraid. I have not been helping Sirius get into the castle and I certainly don't want Harry dead. But I won't deny that I am a werewolf. | remus-lupin | J. K. Rowling | |
| 8c7d9c3 | You know mother, Malfoy?" said Harry "That expression she's got, like she's got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| bd28494 | So after E, it's A for 'Acceptable,' and that's the last pass grade, isn't it?" "Yep," said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. "Then you get P for 'Poor' " -- Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration -- "and D for 'Dreadful.' " "And then T," George reminded him. "T?" asked Hermione, looking appalled. "Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?" " 'Troll,' " said.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d8423e6 | I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy." | percy-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| c52ec52 | Yes, it was rather horrible," said Luna conversationally. "I still feel very sad about it sometimes. But I've still got Dad. And anyway, it's not as though I'll never see Mum again, is it?" "Er-isn't it?" said Harry uncertainly. She shook her head in disbelief. "Oh, come on. You heard them, just behind the veil, didn't you?" "You mean..." "In that room with the archway. They were just lurking out of sight, that's all. You heard them." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fa35683 | Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy." [ | book company happy idea mind-travel | J.K. Rowling | |
| 76c9351 | I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. | snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| a7113f2 | People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be inf.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 6ac8158 | I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 12f162f | Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2dd04ce | I do. Love you, I mean. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b5f8af0 | People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b2b2a9c | Do you see that man in the black Porsche?" I asked the women. They squinted out at Ranger. "Yes," they said."Your partner." "He's homeless. He's looking for a place to stay and he might be interested in renting Singh's room." Mrs.Apusenja's eyes widened. "We could use the income."She looked at Nonnie and then back at Ranger. "Is he married?" "Nope. He's single. He's a real catch." Connie did something between a gasp and a snort and buried h.. | funny humor ranger stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 0a3af23 | Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both."-" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| de50bc5 | Cupcake , you've been breaking my heart for as long as I've known you | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d9a69d0 | I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| f160395 | Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful. | boasting pride | Anonymous |